Quote: paulwalker71 "I hope Ford is on a contract until the end of the season - too old and too slow for SL next year, which is why he's signed for Featherstone. Nobody in SL wanted him for this year, and next year he'll be even older.
Featherstone can sign as many players as they like, but its all going to come down to a one-off game against Leigh.
If they have an off-day that day - which can easily happen to any team - they won't get the promotion slot.
Of course, the same applies to Leigh!
One of those two teams will be looking at staying in the Championship with a bloated over-priced squad that they cannot really afford. The promoted team will have to offload most of their players as well because there is no way either squad will survive at Super League level.
This is what happens when you have promotion and relegation between an elite professional league and a largely part-time league.'"
Im going to disagree with a lot of that. The worrying thing for the other teams in our league is that whichever team does not go up can almost certainly afford to run a similar standard of squad next year, Leigh because of Beaumont willing to pump money in to the club and Fev because they have income streams that far outweigh every team in this league and a few teams in SL. Regards to the squads when they go up, I think Fev have the best chance of staying up although at this point I feel they are a little behind Leigh in the race for that spot in SL but if they were to go up I think they will end up keeping the majority of their squad and with a few good editions should be able to keep their place the following year. If you want to compare then they are a little bit like Hull Kr when they were in our division and they built year on year to get to this point. Leigh on the other hand are likely to lose a lot of players, firstly because of the quota rules and secondly I would imagine because a lot of their players signed 1 year contracts which looks like a chance to put themselves in the shop window and with squad rotations like leigh have every year there will be very little loyalty and most of their players will be out for what they can get which is why I think Fev have the upper hand in that respect.
